Aprater

I am retired but still take care of my 2 uncles who are in their 80s. They are snow birds so when they are home in Michigan they have their family and when they are here in Florida i take care of them. I cook for them take them to run errands. we go out to dinner sometimes also. i keep them busy by going to the senior baseball games witch one of my Uncles plays in. sometimes i have a hard time keeping up with that uncle. I have learned being around them not to procrastinate. I find myself doing things as soon as i can you never know what might happen and its better to just do things when you can and have time them to try and catch up. I love ALL arts/crafting. I have been paper crafting and swapping for over 20 years. I mostly do paper crafts but i really love all kinds of crafting and art . Mixed media is fun as well as making miniatures I have truly dabbled in just about every type of craft you can think of have 3 children for whom I have made crafts with . Iwhen they were small. i hand made all of their Halloween costumes and helped they with crafty homework. I love Victorian and vintage everything! In fact my home is full of vintage things from my great grandfathers dresser to a vanity i restored that i found at a resale shop for $10.00.

I don't really read much anymore but when i did it was mostly classic books. I have read all the Jane Austin books most of Dickinson books and pretty must anything from that era i could get my hands on. I also have red a few new others like George RR Martin. I am a huge fam of the song of Fire and Ice, better none as Game of Thrones. I am excited that they are making more shows that are based on Martins boos.

My favorite movie of all times use to be Ever after but now i think i like Pride and Prejudice. To me it is funny that even though it was written in the 1700s its still relevant to days way people fell. I love a good love story where the man dose so much for the women he loves and did not brag abut doing it its done without looking for praise.

I love Game of Thrones with all thwe intrigue, The Gilded Age for the same reason., Downton Abbey is also really good and most any period dramas. there is a new show on Apple TV called Chief of War ( not normally my kind of show) that is also really good, its a bit hard at first to follow because of the subtitles but worth sticking with.

I do not have a favorite craft I honestly love them all as long as can put a vintage spin on it Ill make it! or try my best. i like making things that have a soft feminin feel to it. Pink is a color you will find in most of my work unless the person I am making it for do not like pink that is. I really enjoy making people happy with my art/crafting. I tend to over give in my swaps. its normal for me to send some of the things i sued to make the craft along with my swap like the paper i used or some embellishments. I typically dont join a swap until I have all others done and start working on that swap the day i sign up.